WEBVTT PRIMARY ELECTION. PAUL: MORE THAN A WEEK OF COLLECTION AND BALLOT TABULATION, THE WINNERS OF THESE MAJOR RACES ARE DECENT CANDIDATES WHO WERE AHEAD ON PRIMARY NIGHT. >> THE NOMINEE OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IN THE PRIMARY FOR GOVERNOR IS JANET T. MILLS OF FARMINGTON. PAUL: THE STAGE IS SET. MAINE’S DEMOCRATIC ATTORNEY GENERAL WILL NOW GO UP AGAINST REPUBLICAN BUSINESSMAN SHAWN MOODY IN THE RACE FOR THE BLAINE HOUSE. CRA >> IT IS ABOUT MOVING THE STATE FORWARD AND BETTERING THE PROSPECTS FOR MAINE. PAUL: THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY A STATE USED RANKED-CHOICE VOTING IN A STATEWIDE ELECTION. WE ASKED MILLS HOW THAT CHANGED THINGS. >> OVERALL, IT WAS A MUCH BETTER RUN CAMPAIGN THAT IT WOULD HAVE BEEN. EVERYONE’S CAMPAIGN WAS BETTER. PAUL: DEMOCRATS NOW KNOW WHICH OF THEM WILL CHALLENGE BRUCE POLINQUIN. MAINERS WERE EXCITED TO MOVE -- USE THIS NEW PROCESS. >> THEY GOT A CHANCE TO VOTE THEIR HOPES AND THEIR DREAMS. PAUL: EVEN THE DEMOCRATS WHO DIDN’T COME OUT ON TOP ENDORSE RANKED-CHOICE VOTING. BETSY SWEET WAS ELIMINATED IN THE THIRD ROUND IN THE RACE FOR THE GUBERNATORIAL NOMINATION. >> I THINK THIS STRENGTHENS OUR PARTY AND PEOPLE’S BELIEF, THAT THEY HAVE A VOICE AND THAT THEY MATTER AND THAT IS AWESOME FOR DEMOCRACY. PAUL: IN ADDITION TO FACING MOODY, MILLS WILL FACE TWO INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES IN THE GENERAL ELECTION: STATE TREASURER TERRY HAYES AND BUSINESSMAN ALAN CARON. IN AUGUSTA, PAUL MERRILL, WMT

Jared Golden has been officially declared the Democratic nominee in Maine's 2nd Congressional District.Golden was named the winner Wednesday by the Maine Secretary of State's Office after ranked-choice voting tabulations were completed. It took more than a week after the primary election for a winner to be named. Golden came up just shy of 50 percent of the vote in the initial tally of votes, triggering ranked choice. He defeated Lucas St. Clair and Craig Olson. Golden will challenge Republican Rep. Bruce Poliquin on the November ballot. Maine was the first state in the nation to use ranked-choice voting in a statewide election. Under the election system, voters rank all candidates from first to last on the ballot, and a candidate who collects a majority of the vote wins. If there's no majority, then last-place candidates are eliminated and votes reallocated in additional rounds of tabulations.